Tuesday, 3 February 2009

I received an e-mail earlier today from Kevin at Younexus, offering well - see you yourself;

Hi,

Iam very interested in your software. The quality and performancearevery impressive. I believe that you want to make more money fromyoursoftware product. Do you have backup revenue plan for yoursoftware?

If not, Younexus Advertising Program for publishercan be your backuprevenue plan. The way it works is to empower yoursoftware to makemoney from advertising. Please see http://www.younexus.com/publisher/ for demo and more details.

Inaddition to making more money, Younexus Advertising ProgramforPublisher can help you to gain insight into critical details aboutyourcustomers such as their location, usage of your software.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any question. I am looking forward to your feedback.

Sincerely,

Kevinhttp://www.younexus.com/

You'll no doubt have noticed the first signs of a problem right? Well it gets better as this doesn't stop at an e-mail. I decided to check this one out (don't worry folks, you'll never see adverts in any of my programs), and their website isn't much better;

The "Term and Condtions" (ya gotta love it) referred to by the way, are at;

http://www.younexus.com/policy/publisher_termandconditions.html

Their plugin instructions are at;

http://www.younexus.com/support/plugin_instruction.html

Essentially, they want developers to include a DLL (ynapwin.dll, PrevX analysis) in their application, that displays adverts to the user. I've not checked to see what type of adverts are displayed, but if their website is anything to go by - you can bet it's not going to be good.